George Yeardley
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Sir George Yeardley was a planter and colonial governor of the colony of Virginia. He was also among the first slaveowners in Colonial America. A survivor of the Virginia Company of London's ill-fated
First Virginia Assembly, Governor Yeardley presiding (in center)
Jamestown Church
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Jamestown Church, constructed in brick from 1639 onward, in Jamestown in the Mid-Atlantic state of Virginia, is one of the oldest surviving building remnants built by Europeans in the original Thirtee
George Yeardley
…February 1624 Jamestown Muster, so was born about 1623 and died before 1655 in Lower Norfolk County). Yeardley died on November 13, 1627. He is buried in Third Jamestown Church at Jamestown, Virginia. His widow, Temperance Flowerdew married Governor Francis West. Their son, Argoll Yeardley would represent Lower Norfolk county…
Exterior of the 1907 church (with graveyard in left foreground)
Digital model of the second church in relation to the current structure.
Interior of the recreated second church
Remains of the brick tower (photographed c. 1900)